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Brothers robbed banks, trains

Breaking their habit of working strictly at night, a bandit band of brothers robbed the bank at New Braunfels in broad daylight on Mar. 12, 1922.

If Willis Newton can be believed, and that is a big “if,” the Newton Boys were the most successful bank and train robbers of all-time. Their total take from 87 banks and six trains in a five-year crime spree was “more money than the Dalton Gang, Butch Cas…

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